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Sunday, January 09, 2005

Kilt.

Not a tramp.
Not a busker.
Not a religious ranter and raver.

I think perhaps I need a new category of "people you see walking about Aberdeen." I've seen him round Queens Cross but my boss's daughter saw him at the top of Union Street. She asked questions her father couldn't answer.

Anyway. On to why he is on here.

From the waist up he wears a white shirt, tie, suit jacket and a meek expression. I think he looks a bit like Jeffrey Archer.

From the waist DOWN. He wears a kilt. Not a normal kilt like would get a good Scottish-lass's heart pumping. Not even a nice 21st Century Kilt like what celebrities wear. No.

A kilt like a Japanese School Girl. By which I mean it only just covers his bottom so he can show off his lovely legs to the world. He walks with a jaunty sway.

17 Comments:

Anonymous said...

Ive seen kilt on many an occasion whilst working in the somerfeild stores on great western road he is in there most fridays around 8pm - 9pm and once even came in wearing only a pair of 'speedo's' immpossible to keep a straight face when your serving him on the checkouts haha

I used to work in the Vicky Wine at Mannofield and he came in there every Friday. It was a nightmare, I had to keep a straight face while serving him whilst everyone behind him in the queue was in knots. Surely he doesn't wear the kilt to work....

This guy is awesome, he lives down next to the Short Mile pub near the Ashvale off Holburn Street. My ex-flatmate has seen him in the Haddows (or whatever that offy is, anyway) next to Iceland on Holburn St wearing a dressing gown. The staff in there were like "yeah, he's the local eccentric". Top Tramp!

The guy in the kilt lives in Nellfield Place just down from the Short Mile, he only wears his kilt in the evenings and at the weekend and obviously when he has to clean his car!!!!!!! He looks really normal when he goes to work each morning.

Used to frequent Aberdeen Tramps a few years back for updates on the legendary Peter Dow. While having a wee browse to see if anything new had been said I remembered Angus he bides not far from me and the good lady and I remembered him getting lifted for being bollock naked on Irvine Place a while back but he got off because the Sherriff said the copper who nicked him wasn't offended by Angus's naked state. True legend Angus.